CVE-2018-15331

7.8 highEPSS 0.9%

High (7.8) in f5 big-ip application acceleration manager. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

On BIG-IP AAM 13.0.0 or 12.1.0-12.1.3.7, the dcdb_convert utility used by BIG-IP AAM fails to drop group permissions when executing helper scripts, which could be used to leverage attacks against the BIG-IP system.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2018-12-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager

References

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54843525
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K54843525

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